One of the things I enjoy the most in life is getting to learn about what other people are doing to incorporate ‘hippy-ism’ into their lives.
Okay, I know one of the reasons why I will never go far in life is that I keep making up concepts and using them to designate things I’m not good at describing. Yeah, it doesn’t address the problem, does it? But I just don’t know how to solve it.
I mean, what can we call this tendency to what some would call social change, what others would call activism, what some others would call do-gooding? I’m certainly no one to start linguistic conventions on a blog, but ‘hippy-ism’ is my way to call all these inclinations people have, in my opinion, to be consequent about and coherent with their core ethical beliefs in at least some aspect of their practical life.
A benefit of this concept: I think it’s flexible enough to be able to cover the summer lemonade stand of that 8-year-old who wants to help kids who have cancer; a multi-million dollar CSR initiative in a company, or the careers of those who decide they like hippying it up for a living.
The point is: when I started this blog, I envisioned myself being more formal about this hobby of mine. Inspired by awesome bloggers like Beth Kanter and Jennifer Lentfer, I saw myself posting about beautiful acts of intended ethical consequence, coherence (to an extent independent from the values of each system they came from) on a regular basis. Long story short, that proved difficult to curate.
Enter Pinterest.
While I am, by no means, giving up on my pursuit to become more formal about this pursuit of mine (hippy curation, anyone?), I am happy to use this hub of spam eyecandy to keep track of those things that make me want to be a professional hippy already.
Okay, it’s time to hippy it up. But slacktivism attackers beware: I think tonight I will only get started on my Hippyism Pinterest Board.